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Family Farmer Group Slams Supreme Court Ruling on Monsanto`s GMO Seed Patents

FDN! Founder Says Government is Complicit in Corporate Takeover of Nation’s Food Supply.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Statement by Dave Murphy, Executive Director and founder of Food Democracy Now!

He addresses today’s Supreme Court ruling that farmers could not use Monsanto’s patented genetically-engineered soybeans to create new seeds without paying a fee...

Corporate India Versus Indigenous Indians

Violence In The Name Of Development.

(LONDON) - Consistent with the unjust, decaying economic model of our deficit times, the commodification of everything and everyone proceeds apace in India.

The commercialisation of the land is shattering the lives of millions of India’s poorest, hungriest most malnourished people, who are being murdered and raped, violently displaced and falsely arrested as huge multi nationals, financially favoured and militarily armed by the Indian government, ravage the land.

The Monsanto Rider Is Much, Much Worse Than GMOs

This rider actually goes further than what Monsanto and Dow did in Vietnam.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Monsanto already got DHS to define organics as a biosecurity threat.

So it is no leap of the imagination that Vilsack who has been an aggressive servant of the biotech industry, is set to declare organic products plant pests or noxious weeds.

Obama Signs `Monsanto Protection Act` Written by Monsanto-Sponsored Senator

According to an article published Monday in the New York Daily News, US Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Missouri) “worked with Monsanto to craft the language in the bill.”

(WASHINGTON DC RT) - On Tuesday, Pres. Obama inked his name to H.R. 933, a continuing resolution spending bill approved in Congress days earlier.

Buried 78 pages within the bill exists a provision that grossly protects biotech corporations such as the Missouri-based Monsanto Company from litigation.

Has Monsanto Hidden a Feudal Star Chamber Inside the Food Safety Law?

People need to understand the immense difference between statutory law (or civil law?) and common law.

(WASHINGTON DC) - HR 875 was an early version of the current food safety law.

It includes a star chamber - a "court" outside of the legal system, with unlimited funding through raids and fines and with no oversight whatsoever, which could impose any "remedy" on anyone, not excluding seizure of all they own, limitless imprisonment, torture or execution/assassination.

Monsanto Wants Oregon`s Legislature to Limit Local Rights

Petition will stop Monsanto's bill that would block local decision-making around GE foods.

(SALEM) - Monsanto cares so much about our wellbeing that they founded "Oregonians for Food & Shelter" — a group promoting a bill in the Oregon state legislature that would prevent communities from banning genetically engineered crops.

Something tells me their front group is more concerned about Monsanto's bottom line than they are about Oregonians.

Tell Whole Foods to Label Its GMOs -- By 2015, Not 2018

It has been revealed that Whole Foods executives have financial ties to politicians who promote GMOs and work to further the interests of Monsanto.

(WASHINGTON DC Causes.com) - We are encouraged by Whole Foods Markets' plan to support consumers' right to know by requiring labeling of all foods containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in its U.S. and Canadian stores by 2018.

Whole Foods Market claims to be "America's Healthiest Grocery Store."

OSGATA President Keynotes at Public Interest Environmental Law Conference

Jim Gerritsen Speaks About OSGATA et al. v. Monsanto at One of the Oldest and Largest Environmental Law Conferences.

(WASHINGTON DC) - OSGATA President Jim Gerritsen will deliver a keynote speech on the OSGATA et al. v. Monsanto lawsuit before a plenary session of the 31st Annual Public Interest Environmental Law Conference (PIELC).

It takes place at the University of Oregon School of Law in Eugene, OR, on March 1.

President Zillur Rahman Stop Being a `Political Slave`

William Nicholas Gomes asks the President of Bangladesh to lead his people.

(DHAKA, Bangladesh) - Human Rights Ambassador William Nicholas Gomes, has asked the president of Bangladesh to stop being a “political slave”.

Mr. William Nicholas Gomes says he is sending President Zillur Rahman an early warning, stop misusing the constitutional power and position for the benefits of your masters.

Spurious Debate on Agricultural Productivity

-The Indian Prime Minister and Agricultural Establishment has lost touch with science and reality-

(CHENNAI) - Prime Minister Man Mohan Singh and his economists have been harping on increasing agricultural productivity ever since this group came into positions of power.

Their usual complaint is that agricultural productivity of farmers in India is a drag on the growth rate of Gross Domestic Product.